I have done searching but so far no solution I can understand in my situation :) ...

I have a report where the values of a cell are coloured in based on some code values. It works great, except that Span Style will only of course 'span' the values that show up in the cell, not the whole cell...

Under Column Formatting I use the following HTML expression and it works. BUT, I want the WHOLE CELL to colour in ....

What am I missing here ? Obviously "span style" is not the correct tag .... I searched through different HTML sites too for some help but no luck with that I can figure out ....

spaan style= color:#COLOUR#;font-weight:bold;" #Buffer Usage# /spaan ( LOL It was hard to get the tag to actually show up in the posting, so forgive the wierd spelling of things !! )

spaan style= color:#COLOUR#;font-weight:bold;" #Buffer Usage# /spaan ( LOL It was hard to get the tag to actually show up in the posting, so forgive the wierd spelling of things !! )

No, not reading the <a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/Forums/Forums+FAQ#ForumsFAQ-Arethereanyusefulformattingoptionsnotshownonthesidebar%3F">FAQ</a> falls into the realm of the unforgivable: wrapping any code posted in <tt>\{code}...\{code}</tt> tags preserves formatting and special characters.

Not searching the forum to find several years worth of discussion on this topic is also pretty heinous (as is Oracle's failure to do anything to meet this basic requirement). As noted above, use a custom report template or resort to Dynamic Actions/JavaScript.